Spring Boot Gradle Plugin

External

• https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/gradle-plugin/reference/html/

Internal

• Spring Boot Concepts
• Gradle Plugins

Overview

apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'

The plugin is responsible with:

• packaging executable jar or war archives
• run Spring Boot applications
• use the dependency management provided by spring-boot-dependencies.

Packaging

Executable JARs are created by the bootJar task. The task is automatically created with the java plugin is applied. It is an instance of BootJar.